The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories

"Expanded and with great new stories, this is the biggest and best anthology of
ghostly hauntings ever. Over 40 tales of visitation by the undead - from
vengeful and violent spirits, set on causing harm to innocent people tucked up
in their homes, to rarer and more kindly ghosts, returning from the grave to
reach out across the other side. Yet others entertain desires of a more
sinister bent, including the erotic. This new edition includes a selection of
favourite haunted house tales chosen by famous screen stars Boris Karloff,
Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Plus a top ranking list of contributors that
includes Stephen King, Bram Stoker, Ruth Rendell, and James Herbert - all
brought together by an anthologist who himself lives in a haunted house.
Stories include: Something unspeakable lurks in a Connecticut apartment closet,
in Stephen King's 'The Boogeyman'; An Irish castle holds something truly
horrifying in wait, in 'The Whistling Room' by William Hope Hodgson; The
lecherous old ghost of a Georgian country house eyes up his latest tenant, in
Norah Lofts' 'Mr Edward'; An ancient mansion on a shelf of rock previously
occupied by a doomed castle, in 'In Letters of Fire' by Gaston Le Roux; The
hunter is hunted in James Herbert's tale of nineteenth-century country mansion,
'The Ghost Hunter'; Psychic phenomena and poltergeists, avenging spirits and
phantom lovers - curl up and read on, but never imagine you are safe from a
visit..."